Damien Symonds

Gee, I get really nervous about lamps.  Their light is so directional, and you have to be SO careful about where you position it. Depending whether you hold a print in your left hand or your right hand, might be the difference between it matching your screen and not, if you know what I mean.

Ceiling lights aren't an option?

What about this one?

Messing with eyes is incredibly hard, and incredibly easy to make look terrible.  The reason you can't find a tute on my site is that I don't recommend it.

However, if you're brave enough, I think it would go like this ...

1. Copy both irises onto separate layers, then combine them to make one complete round iris.
2. Copy the left (white) part of the right eye, flip it, and put it in the right part of the left eye; then vice versa, to essentially remove most of the existing irises.
3. Copy the new whole iris you made, so you have two of them, position them as best you can, then mask them in.

Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry, I mistakenly assumed you wanted your photo to look good.

I'll try again.

8 minutes ago, Tmarch said:

Yeah I think those warm tones are about right, it feels a little dark

Oh? Which image on her page are you looking at? I was going by the first one.

No visible difference in any other programs? Just Photoshop? What about Bridge?

Bother!

Is it an iMac?

Anyway, how about this?

Great!  Now go to Window>Workspace>Reset Essentials.

Add a Levels layer ...

• Red channel 0/1.00/215 and 0/255
• Green channel 0/1.00/225 and 0/255
• Blue channel 0/1.00/255 and 0/160

Then mask on to the background.  You'll find you can allow it to encroach onto the hair a bit, without harm.

I think you need to go a bit closer to them than that, with the lasso selection.

3 minutes ago, wota said:

because it will just close up the selection on its own after a couple clicks and I have to keep starting it over

This happens if you click too quickly.  If it thinks you've double-clicked, it will close it.  Take your time.

Have you tried clicking on the little yellow (-) and green (+) buttons under the Apple menu?

Yes, it was the same when I began. Not much being affected by the gradient.  That's fine.

At its heart it's this method.

This is an insanely hard edit. It took me half an hour, working on this web-sized file.  Allow yourself 2-3 frustrating hours, working on the full-sized file.

Download the PSD file

Do you want to keep the pattern and shadowing that's there?  Just change the colour?

Can you show me roughly what colour you want?

Ok, how's this?

Next question.  The mat the dog is sitting on - is that to stay or go?

There's one more very serious problem we have to address.  This one is free.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

I know it must think we're labouring this point very painfully, but a good black-and-white conversion really relies on a nice raw edit.  Once you have your calibration done and confirmed against prints, let me know and we'll talk about the editing.

Also - VERY IMPORTANT - do this.

Sadly, I have no magic fixes for this.  Just plain old (very patient) cloning.  Not on any fancy blend modes, either, just normal cloning.

Hi Erica, when saving files for web, always make sure the "Embed Color Profile" checkbox is checked.

It might also be called "ICC Profile".

I think you should keep going a bit more.

Use ReCAL.  CheckCAL is kinda silly, because if you go through it and it says you need to ReCAL, then you have to do it again, and you could have just ReCALed in the first place, you know?  ReCAL is the time-sensible option.

Great.  Now warm bub's right arm and both hands a bit.  See how the skintone is a bit different?

I think this: http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/04/the-handyman-method.html